I live in southeast VA zone 8a. One of my favorite spring bloomers is pulmonaria, or lungwort. It's always one of the first to bloom and the pink and purple hues are so welcome in the spring! The spotted, silver foliage is also great for interest. Great list, Danielle!
Fantastic topic. I had a flower friend ask about what blooms when. The deer eat my tiarellas but I have all the rest. With a thick layer of snow on the ground it is nice to remember what will soon be coming.
Bleeding ❤ is one of my favorites as well. Never knew that there was a 2nd version of it. But actually ALL spring flowers are my favorite. The excitement of life, color and fragrance is like a celebration of "We've made it through the winter". Unfortunate, like you said, how elements of the region affect the success of the plants. Columbine is my disappointing plant. ❤❤
I love all your selection of perennial flowers. My friend gifted me hellebores and bleeding heart last year. I can't wait to see them bloom 😍 watching from Missouri Zone 6A
Hi Danielle! That was fun! I need to add epimedium and candytuft. The hummingbirds love lungwart and put it in as many shady beds as I can. I just bought Primrose 'Cowslip' seeds from Select Seeds and plan to winter sow them. Thank you for sharing your list!
Enjoyed this list. Creeping phlox is at the top of my list. I have several large plantings of it and plan on adding more. Of course my daffodils coming up each year is the message that spring is close. I just bought a bleeding heart tuber to add in my shade garden. I’m hoping it grows here in Oklahoma City.
Great list. Some I don't have so I took notes! My favs are pulmonaria, brunnera & always hellebores; I have all three tucked in throughout my garden. All three stay evergreen (after they flower) through frost in my zone 6b/7a garden. The pulmonaria can continue to look good in the garden as long as you cut back the spent blooms and periodically the dead foliage from underneath. Hellebores are evergreen, however, I cut back the previous year foliage in the late winter/early spring so the flowers are the star of the show as early as February some years.
Pulmonaria shrimps on the barbie! They form large clumps quickly, divide well, bloom early and for a long time, and look beautiful even when not in bloom. Can't say enough about that plant!
Lady's mantle (Alchemilla mollis) is wonderful and self-seeds. Love heuchera, tiarella, and heucherella (the cross between the two). Heuchera "Marmalade," "Green Spice," and "Grape Soda" are great cultivars. Epimedium are really nice as a ground cover...mine have the yellow flowers. Had a bleeding heart with chartreuse foliage, but it was a short-timer in my garden. Have to add some dwarf bearded iris to the gardens...oh, Schreiner's!
Favorite spring perennials? I would say the naturalizing bulbs of crocus, daffodils, grape hyacinth, squill & Leucojum!.Of your ten Bleeding heart's my sentimental fave!
Moved to a very wet climate by the Sea from a Hot sunny valley and gardening has been difficult.. But I planted Hellebores and they are blooming beautifully 😍
Penstemon hirsutus (hairy beardstongue) has done well for me and is a great native. I put in a bunch of bareroot mertensia virginica (virginia bluebells) and am hoping those take hold. There are a lot of beautiful native spring ephemerals that will grow in the shade. I also have many of the plants on your list, and I totally agree that they are great to have! Brunnera and aquilegia do well for me in Zone 7a Lower Hudson Valley. The aquilegia self-sows all over the place, which is a plus in my book -- I just pull any that I don't like. I have a large garden area so I don't mind re-seeders especially if the foliage is distinctive so that it is easy to tell that the baby plants are not weeds.
Awesome list! Now I need to add candytuft, tiarella, and pulmonaria to my grow list this year! I planted some dicentra last year but I don’t think I gave it enough water in a dry shade area that it was planted. I will try again! What do you think of adding baptisia and peonies to this list? I have white peonies next to blue baptisia that bloom next to each other in may/June every year and make a stunning show. ❤
Anything that is beginner-proof! I planted a small fothergilla in my yard in the fall because I saw that it did well in my zone (7), and had 3 seasons of beautiful interest: bottle-brush-like flowers in the spring, lush green foliage in the summer, and then it turns red/orange/yellow in the fall before dying back for winter. I’m hoping it gets to its full size of 5’x5’ and acts as a living fence between me and my neighbor, who can enjoy the plant too!
Spring ephemerals - twin leaf, trillium and blood root (and bluebells) - are all must have us for us in our woodland spaces - paired with white trout lilies white daffs and later summer snowflake. Perennial must haves - brunnera, epimedium, pulmonaria. Go to groundcovers - barren strawberry and tiarella..
Hellebore, Daffodil and Muscari are my favorite Spring blooms! I’ve always wanted to try Dicentra Bleeding Hearts! Thanks for sharing your list! 🥰
I live in southeast VA zone 8a. One of my favorite spring bloomers is pulmonaria, or lungwort. It's always one of the first to bloom and the pink and purple hues are so welcome in the spring! The spotted, silver foliage is also great for interest. Great list, Danielle!
Needed to see this video today just to look at some green and color. Thank you!
Fantastic topic. I had a flower friend ask about what blooms when. The deer eat my tiarellas but I have all the rest. With a thick layer of snow on the ground it is nice to remember what will soon be coming.
Great Top 10! My vote for #11 would be Virginia Bluebells
I have to add a few of my favorites....Blood root and blue Scilla. Together they make a stunning display.
Thank you Danielle. I’ll pick one, and plant it. Leaning towards hellebores.
I watched this video 3 times in a row, took notes and shared with 3 others. I appreciate your videos so much, so beautiful and inspiring. Thank you.
I have 5 of the 10 and now a list for spring planting❤
Same! I didn’t know about fern leaf bleeding heart!
Wow so beautiful gardening❤❤❤
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Creeping phlox is definitely the stunner in my garden! They are growing along the length of my retaining wall where I can’t get much else to grow.
Thank you Danielle. ❄️⛄️💚🙃
Bleeding ❤ is one of my favorites as well. Never knew that there was a 2nd version of it. But actually ALL spring flowers are my favorite. The excitement of life, color and fragrance is like a celebration of "We've made it through the winter". Unfortunate, like you said, how elements of the region affect the success of the plants. Columbine is my disappointing plant. ❤❤
I live in 6b. My favorite- hands down is ice folley daffodils. I have a yard of 2,000 of them! I also enjoy hellebores and bleeding hearts as well!
Hi Danielle. I completely concur with your choices for spring bloomers. I have most of the ones on your list.
Great selection, thanks ❤
Always helpful,thank you Danielle!❤
Hellebores and lungwort are my favorites!
Oh this was really a nice video!! I love these flowers!! I hope you do more videos on other tried and true plants!!❤❤
I love all your selection of perennial flowers. My friend gifted me hellebores and bleeding heart last year. I can't wait to see them bloom 😍 watching from Missouri Zone 6A
I need to add some of these plants to my garden. Wish I have space yo add all of them.
I needed some inspiration as quite often im strugle with having nice display at same time thanks ❤
Thank you, such a pretty selection!
Love the review vids. Great info Longer vids please!
Hi Danielle! That was fun! I need to add epimedium and candytuft. The hummingbirds love lungwart and put it in as many shady beds as I can. I just bought Primrose 'Cowslip' seeds from Select Seeds and plan to winter sow them. Thank you for sharing your list!
Enjoyed this list. Creeping phlox is at the top of my list. I have several large plantings of it and plan on adding more. Of course my daffodils coming up each year is the message that spring is close. I just bought a bleeding heart tuber to add in my shade garden. I’m hoping it grows here in Oklahoma City.
This was a very interesting list! Thanks!
Love the list. Have most in my 6a/7b PA garden. Lady's Mantel in on my 2025 list.
My two favorite early spring perennials in my zone 6a garden are Hepatica and double Bloodroot.
Great list. Some I don't have so I took notes! My favs are pulmonaria, brunnera & always hellebores; I have all three tucked in throughout my garden. All three stay evergreen (after they flower) through frost in my zone 6b/7a garden. The pulmonaria can continue to look good in the garden as long as you cut back the spent blooms and periodically the dead foliage from underneath. Hellebores are evergreen, however, I cut back the previous year foliage in the late winter/early spring so the flowers are the star of the show as early as February some years.
Iris reticulata is one of my favorites as well as Georgia Blue Veronica.
I’ve never heard of miniature Iris I’m going to have to see about getting some of them. ❄️⛄️💚🙃
Pulmonaria shrimps on the barbie! They form large clumps quickly, divide well, bloom early and for a long time, and look beautiful even when not in bloom. Can't say enough about that plant!
I have that one too and it is a great cultivar. I also like Moonshine for the silver foliage.
Basket of gold alyssum is a great yellow perennial
Lady's mantle (Alchemilla mollis) is wonderful and self-seeds. Love heuchera, tiarella, and heucherella (the cross between the two). Heuchera "Marmalade," "Green Spice," and "Grape Soda" are great cultivars. Epimedium are really nice as a ground cover...mine have the yellow flowers. Had a bleeding heart with chartreuse foliage, but it was a short-timer in my garden.
Have to add some dwarf bearded iris to the gardens...oh, Schreiner's!
Favorite spring perennials? I would say the naturalizing bulbs of crocus, daffodils, grape hyacinth, squill & Leucojum!.Of your ten Bleeding heart's my sentimental fave!
Moved to a very wet climate by the Sea from a Hot sunny valley and gardening has been difficult.. But I planted Hellebores and they are blooming beautifully 😍
Penstemon hirsutus (hairy beardstongue) has done well for me and is a great native. I put in a bunch of bareroot mertensia virginica (virginia bluebells) and am hoping those take hold. There are a lot of beautiful native spring ephemerals that will grow in the shade. I also have many of the plants on your list, and I totally agree that they are great to have! Brunnera and aquilegia do well for me in Zone 7a Lower Hudson Valley. The aquilegia self-sows all over the place, which is a plus in my book -- I just pull any that I don't like. I have a large garden area so I don't mind re-seeders especially if the foliage is distinctive so that it is easy to tell that the baby plants are not weeds.
Awesome list! Now I need to add candytuft, tiarella, and pulmonaria to my grow list this year! I planted some dicentra last year but I don’t think I gave it enough water in a dry shade area that it was planted. I will try again! What do you think of adding baptisia and peonies to this list? I have white peonies next to blue baptisia that bloom next to each other in may/June every year and make a stunning show. ❤
Anything that is beginner-proof! I planted a small fothergilla in my yard in the fall because I saw that it did well in my zone (7), and had 3 seasons of beautiful interest: bottle-brush-like flowers in the spring, lush green foliage in the summer, and then it turns red/orange/yellow in the fall before dying back for winter. I’m hoping it gets to its full size of 5’x5’ and acts as a living fence between me and my neighbor, who can enjoy the plant too!
I would add snowdrops to your list
Spring ephemerals - twin leaf, trillium and blood root (and bluebells) - are all must have us for us in our woodland spaces - paired with white trout lilies white daffs and later summer snowflake. Perennial must haves - brunnera, epimedium, pulmonaria. Go to groundcovers - barren strawberry and tiarella..
Giant Solomon Seal, it grows in next to no light, making it an invaluable, tall, spring flower under my row of cedar trees that line my driveway.
When I've grown candytuft, they bloom all season. Maybe not as much as the early summer.
I need need the name of the green Helleborus "star" at 1.48.